Manufacturing of sheet metal components with variants using process adapted semi-finished products

摘要

Functional sheet metal components can be manufactured through the use of bulk forming operations on sheet metal semi-finished parts. Challenging are the high forming forces and the exact control of material flow. The manufacturing of the semi-finished parts with a defined sheet thickness characteristic occurs on the basis of the processes upsetting and orbital forming. Following a forming operation is presented for the production of an external geared component. The potential for the enhancement of the process limits by use of tailored blanks is demonstrated.